Tubular attachment wick



(Dec. 3l, 1940. G. wALTERs 2,226,793

TUBULAR ATTACHMENT WICK Filed Aug. 5l, 1938 6 few a Ij) r@ Tv Ww W# VW VL# W# Vl# Patented Dec. 31, 1940 y y TUBULAR ATTACHMENT WICK Gustav Walters, Middletown, Conn., assignor to The Russell Manufacturing Company, Middletown, Conn., a, corporation of Connecticut Application August 31, 1938, Serial No. 227,707

4 Claims.

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One object of this invention is to provide an improved tubular attachment-wick adapted to be easily and rmly secured on top of a tubular main wick of a ycommon type used in oil stoves and the like.

Another object of this invention is to provide an improved tubular attachment-Wick characterized by long life, to be secured on top of a tubular main wick of a common type used in oil stoves and the like.

Another obj ectof this invention is to provide an improved tubular attachment-Wick having simple and eicient attachment-means readily manufactured and readily assembled with the attachment-wick, and with the main wick to which the attachment-Wick is to be applied.

With the above and other objects in View as will appear to those skilled in the art from the present disclosure, this invention includes all features in said disclosure which are novel over the prior art.

In the accompanying drawing, in which one way of carrying out the invention is shown for illustrative purposes:

Fig. 1 is a perspective View of a tubular attachment-Wick made in accordance with the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a central vertical sectional View -through the attachment-wick and the prongs;

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of a main wick and carrier With the attachment-Wick mounted thereon;

Fig. 4 is a central vertical sectional view similar to Fig. 2 with the attachment-wick secured in place on the main wick;

Fig. 5 is a front elevation of a punched-out attachment-strip for forming the attachmentmeans for the tubular attachment-wick;

Fig. 6 is a View similar to Fig. 5 with the attaching elements thereof bent to attaching position;

Fig. 'I is a sectional view on line 'I-l of Fig. 6; and

Fig. 8 is a sectional view similar to Fig. 7, of a modified construction.

In the description and claims, the various parts are identied by specic names for convenience, but they are intended to be as generic in their application as the prior ant will permit.

Referring to the drawing, the particular form of vthe invention herein chosen for illustration includes a tubular attachment-Wick or cap-Wick or replacement-wick I0 to which an attachmentmember or clip or band II, preferably formed from thin resilient sheet-metal, which may be a rustless metal if desired, is secured by means 5 of clamping-prongs I2, the extreme ends I3 of which are bent over or clamped to the wick I0 to firmly secure the band or clamping-member I I to the wick. The attachment-member or band II may be made in various ways. In the par- 10 ticular construction illustrated in the drawing, it is first formed as a straight strip of thin resilient sheet-metal having oppositely-projecting prongs I2 and I4. The prongs I2 are bent over at right angles, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, and 15 the extreme ends of the prongs I4 are bent over to form anchoring-hooks I5. Instead of making the anchoring-hooks I5 at right angles to the body-portion of prongs I4, anchoring-hooks Ilia may be employed as shown in Fig. 8, arranged 2o at an acute angle to the body-portion of the prongs. If desired, before applying the band II to the Wick I0, the band II can be formed up into ring form and have the abutting ends I6 joined together by butt-welding or other suit- 25 able means. Or, if desired, the attachment-band II can be used without joining the ends I6 together, in which case attaching-prongs similar to prongs I2 can beadded adjacent the ends I6 to secure the ends of the band II to the wick 3o I0. Or, the band II with the prongs I2 and If4, can be punched out from a tube, so as to be seamless and free of any joint. The wick I0 may be of any desired construction or material.

One important use for my improved attach- 35 ment-wick construction is where the main-wick I'I mounted in a carrier I8 has been burned down to be no longer serviceable, such, for example, as being burned down to approximately the topedge I9 of the carrier I8. In such case, the at- 40 tachment-wick construction illustrated in Fig. 1 can be graspedin the hand and moved downward to cause the prongs I4 to be inserted between the top-edge portion of the main wick I1 and the Wall of the carrier I8, to the position illus- 45 trated in Figs. 3 and 4, and While the abutting edges 20 of the wicks III and I1 are held in firmlypressed-together relation, the operators fingers are pressed against the inner surface 2| of mainwick I'I to force the wick over the hooks I5 (or 50 ld) to firmly anchor the hooks in the Wick I'I. As thus assembled, oil is carried by capillary action from main-wick I1 across the abutting wickedges 2U to wick I0 and is burned at the top of the Wick Ill. It will be obvious that by detaching the hooks l5 (or 15a) from the main-wick l1, the wick IU can be removed or detached from its place on top of main-wick l1. An attachment-wick employing a wick-member made, for example, in accordance with the disclosure of either of my applications for patent entitled Woven wick, Serial No. 227,705, or Tubular felted wick, Serial No. 227,703, both led August 31, 1938, provides a wick having long life.

The invention may be carriedout in other specific ways than those herein set forth without departing from the spirit and essential characteristics of the invention, and the ,present embodiments are, therefore, to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, and all changes coming within the meaning [and equivalency range of the appended claims rare intendedto be embraced therein.

I claim:

1. In combination: a tubular main wick mounted in a tubular wick-carrier; a tubular attachment-wick mounted in end-abutting relation on said main wick; a tubular band;secured to,.rand having its upper edge `lower than vthe -upper edge of, and its loweredge not lower than the loweredge of, said zattachmer-it-wick; prongs carried by and projecting from said tubular band longitudinally -ofsaid wicks rdown past the abutting endsof said attachment-wick and -said main wick `and having hooks at-theirv lower ends -en gaging said main wick. l

2. In combination: a tubular main wick mounted in a tubular wick-carrier; a tubular. at-

tachment-wick mounted in end-abutting relation on said main wick; a tubular band surroundlower than the upper edge of, and its lower edge not lower than the lower edge of, said attachment-wick; prongs carried by and projecting from said tubular band longitudinally of said wicks down past the abutting ends of said attachment-wick and said main wick and between said carrier and said main wick and having inwardly-directed hooks at their lower ends engaging said main wick.

3. A tubular attachment-wick unit comprising: a tubular attachment-wick; a tubular band secured to, and having its upper edge lower than the upper edge of, and its lower edge not lower than the lower edge of, said attachment-wick; prongs carried'by and projecting from said tubular 'bandlongitudinally of and down past the lower edge of said attachment-wick and having hooks at their lower ends for engagement with a tubular main wick; said attachment-wick unit constituting an article of manufacture designed Yandfadapted to be attached as a unit toa tubular mainwick,

`4. A tubular attachment-wick unit comprising: a tubular attachment-wick; a tubular band surrounding and secured to,` andl having yits -upper edge lower'thanithe yupper edge of, :and its lower `edge not lower than the loweredge of, said attachment-wick; prongs carried by and vprojecting from said tubular band longitudinally of and down past-the lower edge of said attachmentwick and Vhaving inwardly-directed hooks at their llowerends for engagement with a tubular Vmain wick; said attachment-wick unit .constituting an article of manufacture designed `and adapted to Ibe attachedas a `unit to a tubular main wick.

GUSTAV WALTERS. 

